Tag: 1930s

• Hospital Nurseries & Newborn IDs in 1930s | Baby History Shorts

  

  In the 1930s, hospital births were becoming more common in the US, for example, in Chicago in 1930, 55% of births took place in a hospital. It’s likely more would have chosen a hospital birth if they could afford it, or weren’t prevented due to segregation. For efficiency, hospitals used nurseries to care for newborns…

  Aradia Wyndham

  April 29, 2024

  Babies, Birth, Video

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• The Great Chicago Baby Mix-Up

  

  If you give birth at a hospital how well do you trust that the baby you go home with is the baby you gave birth to? Today most hospitals still rely on name tags, though with some high-tech gadgets like security cameras, bar code scanners, foot and fingerprint readers, and of course there’s DNA testing…

  Aradia Wyndham

  August 5, 2022

  Babies, Birth

  1930s, Birth, Chicago, hospital birth, newborn, switched at birth